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Description

A mixed lace women's vest made with linen thread, possibly Ojibwe or Dakota, circa the late 19th to early 20th century. It has tape work in floral motif joined by needle made spiders and mesh fillings with scalloped edges and attached picot edging. It is joined at the shoulder seams. Collected by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple.

Creation: Not earlier than 1890 - Approximately 1926 (Sybil Carter began developing the Episcopal Church lace manufacturing work with American Indians in Minnesota in 1890. The lace program continued well after Carters death in 1908 and eventually dissolved in 1926.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Sibley House Association of the Minnesota Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution